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Allahabad, 5th September 1931.
Revered Suri Acharyamaharaj,
I thank you very heartily for your kind letter of the 26th. July and for the invitation to join the convocation of the Vir. tattva Prakashak Mandal. I should have thanked and replied much earlier, but the reason of my silence was that I found myself quite at a loss as to what I should answer on account of certain difficulties which I may be allowed to point out to you. Unfortunately I am not free to move about when and as long as I like, but I have to carry on my lectures at the University of Allahabad. My time-table being even less favourable than during the past session, this means that I can only leave Allahabad on Thursday evening and have to return before Monday evening; this leaves only two days for Shivpuri, where I would arrive on Friday noon by lorry from Jhansi and would have to leave on Sunday morning. To take casual leave from the university is not advisable for me under the present circumstances for various reasons. I could, therefore, attend only two out of the six days of the Convocation; and as these days will certainly be very busy and full of engagements and arrange. ments, I am afraid there would hardly be any leisure and time for personal and scientific intercourse and the exchange of ideas. However much, therefore, I should like to join the Convocation festivities, I thought it might be better to renounce altogether that part of them which I could only attend any way and come at some other time. So I propose to come for the next weekend, arriving at Shivpuri by the Jhansi Lorry on Friday the 18th. In case, however, you want my presence at the convocation very urgently, I could still change my resolution; in that Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com